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Delhi unearths more skeletons

Relatives of missing children watch as more skeletons are recovered from a ditch [AFP]

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Rathore told reporters that a domestic helper charged with rape,murder and concealment appeared to be a "mentally ill" man whoconfessed to police he had lured and killed six children withsweets and toys.

"He says he kidnapped the children for sex," Rathore said.

The servant's businessman employer ,who sells earth-movingequipment, was also later arrested in connection with the discovery.

The employer was also charged with rape, murder and concealment,Rathore said.

News reports said the victims, the children of labourers livingin shanty clusters near the house where the arrested men lived, hadbeen sexually abused.

Ten of the 15 victims so far discovered had been identified by their parents, the police official said.

The victims were aged between six and 12.

As news of the discovery of the children's remains spread,hundreds of relatives gathered outside the building, somewaving photographs of their missing sons and daughters.